[Beowulf] Emergency Power Off

[Cunningham, Dave]

Don't know about deliberate sabotage, but I do know of one very
embarrassed engineer who was escorting a vendor in a not-to-be named
large server farm, and accidentally picked the wrong spot to lean up
against the wall.  Dumped the whole farm.  We have tighter access
controls and brighter labels now, but skata happens.

  Dave

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Jim Lux
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:48 PM
To: Robert G. Brown
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Emergency Power Off

At 01:04 PM 3/18/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jim Lux wrote:
>
>>And, that white paper from APC (which, by the way, has a revised 
>>version for 2005 that talks more about the risks of deliberate 
>>EPOing as sabotage) is pretty short on practical details, while 
>>it's great at showing drawings of buttons.
>
>"deliberate EPOing as sabotage"?  Oh, yeah.  That's way up there in my
>risk catalogue.  Solution -- lock server room door, fire any employee
>idiotic enough to kill the datacenter deliberately without cause.  This
>is in a code discussion?

Why yes... basically same paper as you referenced but now titled:
"understanding EPO and its downtime risks"

http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/ASTE-5T3TTT_R2_EN.pdf



>Sigh.

Very much indeed.


>    rgb
>
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>Robert G. Brown                        http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
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>

James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group
Flight Communications Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
tel: (818)354-2075
fax: (818)393-6875 


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